Improvement in carpet-stretchers



4w. H.`- CURTIS. Carpet-Stretchers.

Patented Sept. 8,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM H. CURTIS, OF BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-STRETCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,848, datedSeptember 8, 1874 application filed June 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. CURTIS, of Buchanan, in the county ofBerrien and State of Michigan, have invented an ImprovedCarpet-Stretcher, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a device by .means of which aconsiderable breadth of carpet may be stretched and held while beingtacked to the floor; and it consists in a toothed bar having a leverattached to it by a bail, and provided with a pawl-bail, which engageswith a ratchet-bar having a hook at one end to drive into the floor, thewdhole being arranged to operate as more fully herein after set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus as in use. Fig. 2is abottom perspee.

tive view, 'showing` the bottom of the toothed bar.

In the drawing, Areprcsents the wooden bar, armed on its lower face withteeth a to engage with the carpet. B is alcver, whose and a hook, d, atone end to drive into the oor. b is a pawl-bail, hinged to the middlepart of the bar A. l

To stretch a carpet, one end and one side of which are already tacked toplace, drive the hook d into the iloor near the base-board, and bringthe bar A under the rear end of the hook-bar, dropping the pawl-bailinto the back part of the ratchet; then engage the notched plate B ofthe lever with the ratchet, and push the lever toward the wall, whichwill draw the toothed bar and the carpet under it toward the wall, untilsufficiently stretched, when the latter will be held fast by theengagement of the pawl-bail with the ratchet, until the carpet can betacked at the edge, repeating the operation and changing the position ofthe stretcher until the work is complete.

What I claim as my invention, and desire tov secure by Letters Patent,is

The combination of the toothed bar A, lever B, bails b b', and the barC, provided with the ratchet c and hook d, substantially as and for the`purpose set forth.

WILLIAM H. CURTIS. Witnesses:

J. M. WILsoN, R. MORRIS.

